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16 Cards in this Set
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ancien regime
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old order in which everyone in France belonged to to one of three classes- the First Estate, Second Estate, and Third Estate
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bourgeoisie
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middle class of France- lawyers, doctors, journalists, professors, and skilled artisans
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deficit spending
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when a government spends more money than it has
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cahiers
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notebooks listing the things that the people who were attending the Estates General thought France should change
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tricolor
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a red, white, and blue badge that the people against the king wore to represent themselves- it eventually became the French flag
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sans-culottes
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a radical faction that wanted to get rid of the king altogether
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secular
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having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters
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plebiscite
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ballot in which voters have direct say on an issue
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abdicate
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to step down from power
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legitimacy
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restoring hereditary monarchies
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First Estate
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clergy or church officials- highest group
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Second Estate
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the nobles- second highest
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Third Estate
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everybody else- they had the lowest social status and they had to pay taxes, many of the were very poor
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Louis XVI
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- The king during the time of the Revolution.
- Called Jacques Necker to help with France's economic problems - Tried to escape France - Got his head chopped off in January 1793 |
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Jacques Necker
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- the man who Louis XVI called to help with the economic probs in France
- SUGGESTIONS: -spend less money on all the extravagant things that the kings buy - make the government more accessible to the people - drop tariffs - tax the 1st and 2nd estates - got fires for saying this - |
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Marquis de Lafayette
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- had fought in the American revolution
- created his own private army against the King- headed the National Guard |
